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CTV News
2 days ago
- Automotive
- CTV News
Port Saint John partners looking to diversity imports
You may soon see more then just shipping containers being unloaded at Port Saint John. DP World, who operates the six container cranes along the city's waterfront, confirmed to CTV in an email they are exploring the possibility of adding car imports to Saint John operations. The topic came up last week during Port Days 2025, an annual event held by the port to share its direction with key stakeholders. Port President and C.E.O. Craig Bell Estabrooks says DP World and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) Railway want to diversity their operations. 'We built this infrastructure years ago to be multipurpose,' Bell Estabrooks says. 'So yes, containers are our focus. They're going to continue to be the main focus, but if we could move some other commodities with DP world and other partners like autos, that's a real opportunity.' Bell Estabrooks says DP World would likely start small when it comes to moving automobiles to see how manageable it is and what the business model would look like before making a full commitment. CTV has reached out to DP World for more information about the prospect of bringing car imports to the city and are awaiting their response. Estabrooks said it's not just car imports that could be added to the port's growing capabilities. 'The other big one is around breakbulk,' says Bell Estabrooks. 'Importing Brazilian eucalyptus and from a wood pulp standpoint, that can be blended with existing forest products in New Brunswick and potentially even further than just New Brunswick.' Despite a busy start to the year, including the addition of two container cranes and breaking ground for a new cold storage unit to be run by Americold, Bell Estabrooks says there is still a lot on the port's agenda. Continued rail upgrades top the list. Bell Estabrooks says he would like to double, if not triple the tracks out of the port to Bayshore where there is a switching facility. He says Americold's addition to the waterfront has spurred conversation around food processing and refrigerated goods. 'I think food is one of the big opportunities for us,' he says. Estabrooks says there is not a lot of space available on port property but there is still plenty of opportunity for growth. He says DP World added more equipment to its arsenal to help load and unload ships faster and improve the flow of goods through the terminals. 'We're dreaming much bigger than we did a decade ago,' says Estabrooks. 'It's really because of what our partners are telling us. So we always look at the port as we provide really good infrastructure. We provide really good services and operational model with the employees that we have and then we just let the private sector do the development.' Estabrooks says the port hasn't processed hundreds of thousands of tons of breakbulk in the way they are proposing since the late 1990s and there is potential in the energy sector. He says meeting two or three of them in place would be a tremendous success. For more New Brunswick news, visit our dedicated provincial page.
BBC News
3 days ago
- Business
- BBC News
People Fixing the World Shipping containers fixing the world
Shipping containers are a staple of global trade, helping in the transport of all sorts of goods by sea across the world. But their relatively cheap cost and sturdy structure lends them to many other purposes. In this episode we look at a start-up business in the UK that uses shipping containers to store carbon captured from the air in the production of building materials. And we visit a school for poorer children created out of shipping containers that sits in the middle of a busy intersection in Mumbai, India. People Fixing The World from the BBC is about brilliant solutions to the world's problems. We'd love you to let us know what you think and to hear about your own solutions. You can contact us on WhatsApp by messaging +44 8000 321721 or email peoplefixingtheworld@ And please leave us a review on your chosen podcast provider. Presenter: Myra Anubi Producer: William Kremer India reporter: Chhavi Sachdev Editor: Jon Bithrey Sound mix: Hal Haines (Image: Myra with Nicholas Chadwick from Mission Zero outside a shipping container in Norfolk, BBC)
CBC
15-05-2025
- CBC
3 men face charges over stolen beer, food and toilet paper, say Burnaby RCMP
Social Sharing Mounties in Burnaby, B.C., have recovered pallets of beer, food and enough toilet paper and paper towels to supply a town in an investigation into the theft of shipping containers. RCMP say in a news release that three containers that held merchandise worth about $125,000 were stolen last August from a business in the city. They say the empty containers were found on a property in nearby Port Coquitlam a week later, but no arrests were made. Then, in November, police say another container was stolen from the same business with about $60,000 worth of goods. Police say they used a warrant to search a warehouse in Surrey in February and found a semi-truck, forklift, 51 pallets of toilet paper, 42 pallets of paper towels, two pallets of beer and five more of food. The RCMP says three men, ranging in age from 40 to 54 and all from the Lower Mainland, face numerous potential charges, including theft, trafficking in property obtained by crime and possession of property obtained by crime
